Star Trek/skull "Red Shirt" tee

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Ian Wilding's clever "Red Shirt" is available from FSC Tees.

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Cool t-shirt, but I’m pretty sure that in the actual future we’ll all be backed up in the cloud (maybe “the nebula”), so the red shirts amongst us will never really die. We’ll just be regenerated back on the ship.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PipLagenta Pip_R_Lagenta

In my neighborhood, wearing a red shirt actually can get you killed. This summer, I shall test how extreme the situation is by allowing myself to be seen carrying, or reading, John Scalzi’s forthcoming novel “Redshirts”. If holding that book does get me killed, consider me to have died for Science Fiction. (See, there’s no down side.)
- penguinchris
  
  I bought a cotton necktie at Nordstrom in Orange County last summer that looks like it was made out of a classic blue bandana (they had red ones too) that had been faded in the sun a bit. I had seen them in there for weeks and nobody seemed to be buying them – and they were eventually marked down to about $7 on clearance which was low enough for me to buy one on impulse because I thought it was cool, kind of “hip old west”, or something you’d wear in Austin maybe.
  
  I never wore it – I wasn’t wearing ties very often but I sort of collect them. Then, I was going to go to a friend’s art show in Long Beach and thought that would be a good excuse to wear one of my many ties and decided that the bandana one would look great with the rest of what I was wearing.
  
  I didn’t tie it on but put it in my bag. I drove down to Long Beach with my friend and then when we got there, I showed her the tie and said something like “check out this cool tie.” She was kind of shocked (in a humorous way) and said to hide that in the car or we’d both get shot.
  
  Took me a few seconds to finally realize why they sold so poorly at SoCal Nordstrom stores, and why I shouldn’t wear it in Long Beach in particular :)
zapan

Don’t wear that shirt in Japan either, it totally look like it says “Loli-con” in other words, young girl stalker.
http://twitter.com/ChurchHTucker ChurchHatesTucker

Wrong emblem in the ‘nose.’
http://twitter.com/ablestmage ablestmage

At first, the upside down lettering seemed to say “Loli-con”.. Maybe I should browse a little less 4chan this weekend =P